THE Gaza ceasefire appeared to break down on Tuesday, amid accusations that both sides had violated the agreement. At least 104 people in Gaza were killed in Israeli air strikes on Tuesday evening, ...

IT IS no fun being short. Time and again, you are at some performance or event, but are seated behind someone blocking your view. There are no handy sycamore trees in a theatre. In a football stadium, ...

I HAD always thought that studying theology should make me more complex, and that, by the time I left theological college, I would have a big vocabulary that I could use to impress members of the ...

The Church Times4 Dog, restrained by lead, beginning to savage gnomes? (8) 10 Unexpectedly, I’m able to catch bus for historic temple site (3, 6) 11 Watch classical poet erasing core part of verse (5) ...

I HAVE just returned from another September pilgrimage on St Aldhelm’s Way with my two oldest friends, and I find myself continuing to reflect on both the fissures and the continuities in the story of ...

THE work of an Archbishop of Canterbury is “complex and challenging”, but also “very simple”, the Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, said in her first address after being nominated as the ...

SEVEN people were killed by Israeli drone-fire on the Anglican Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City on Sunday, after damage and disruption involving local “outlaws”. On Monday, the diocese of Jerusalem, ...

They are, Dr Black says, “just turning up out of the blue, in really quite unusual ways”. In some instances, people have arrived having had a dream. Others have arrived “randomly” at prayer and ...

THE next Dean of Bangor is to be the Revd Dr Manon Ceridwen James, Canon Theologian of Newport Cathedral, the Bangor Chapter announced on Monday. One of the recommendations of the cathedral’s recent ...

THERE has been a flurry of delivery vans at British Home — the result of internet shopping for Christmas. The packages that arrive expose a secret. British Home might now, thanks to the marketing bods ...